- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- March 6, 1719 CE
- Location:
- Portugal
- Magnitude:
- 4.86 Mw
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 3 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.86
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- AHEAD: Mw 4.79
Other earthquake records of 1719 CE
- Turkey · 6,000 deaths
- Portugal, Algarve, Spain · 3 deaths
- El Salvador, San Salvador · M 7.6
- Italy · Mw 4.94
- Turkey · Mw 7.43
- Morocco, Marrakech
Source: Lammers, S., Weatherill, G., Grünthal, G. & Cotton, F. (2023): EMEC-2021 — The European-Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue, Version 2021. GFZ, doi:10.5880/GFZ.EMEC.2021.001 · License: CC BY 4.0 · institutional record ↗
Frequently asked questions
- When did 1719 Portugal earthquake (Mw 4.9) (1719 CE) happen?
- March 6, 1719 CE.
- Where does this information come from?
- This record comes from Lammers, S., Weatherill, G., Grünthal, G. & Cotton, F. (2023): EMEC-2021 — The European-Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue, Version 2021. GFZ, doi:10.5880/GFZ.EMEC.2021.001; it was not hand-authored and is stored together with its source.